Saki, 26, has been married for eight years. After high school she reunited at a class gathering with the literary-club adviser she had always admired. They began dating, and a pregnancy led to marriage six months later. She left university to become a homemaker, only to suffer a miscarriage soon afterward. Her grief and her husband's apparent relief drove a wedge between them. When she discovered his affair, she pretended not to know, even as his touch filled her with revulsion and she cried behind her smile. Desperate for something to cling to, Saki takes a trip and writhes in passion amid her despair.